Blog 5 (addition to my artist statement)

Christopher Gross 1/25/09
FilmP 150.04 Professors Anderson and Lucas
Artist Statement
From age three to eighteen and beyond I realized that I when I grew up I wanted to be famous. Now most kids around three to ten years old usually want to be professional athletes or policemen or doctors, I was not like any other kid. From the first time I saw The Godfather when I was three I wanted to make movies. I’ve always been fascinated with the aspect of editing the movies and screenwriting. The whole editing aspect really intrigues me because I am into making something out of a bunch of minuscule items. With editing I have the opportunity to take thousands of shots and put them together into a phenomenal piece of work. When looking upon my career choice as a filmmaker I realized that my inspiration and motivation are my family and my friends. My family and friends are my driving force in life and through my work in film, I hope to impress my family and friends and make them all proud for the things that they have helped me accomplish. I have a background in editing on Final Cut Pro, Avid, Vegas and Adobe Premiere Pro, where I have edited many locally and nationally acclaimed pieces as well as famous works of motion picture. This has intrigued me ever since I started editing in the 9th grade, although I was studying film since I was a kid. On said editing software I was named one of the top four contestants in the country for the R.E.M. Supernatural Superserious contest where I edited a music video together for the rock band R.E.M. I have also edited various commercials for Honda, Coke and VH1. I truly admire the work of Spielberg, Hitchcock, Coppola and Welles, but I enjoy watching all works of motion picture because I learn from the mistakes and the triumphs of each and every director. I enjoy watching the greats because I love how they depict every aspect of each character and how they twist the plots or exploit one certain aspect of a certain character. I’m interested in showing the world a side of me that will shock many and woo others, being I want to bring forth the social problems in the world, with children and express them in my work. I also want to entertain many by writing something’s that nobody would have ever thought of writing, and after writing it, I want to make it into a feature length motion picture. Although im using this as blog number 5 im going to add onto the first artist statement because I could not find a way to rewrite this current one. After taking this class I re affirmed my need to want to become a filmmaker. Just with this class I noticed that I want to be more involved with film and not with New Media. New Media, although taking over the globe is not my field of choice, therefore I wish that we had more to do with film but its ok. I really enjoyed all that went on this semester between the wrestling, the moving into my own place, the fact that I am now signed on to film some rappers , my whole life has truly changed since I moved down to the city.

Blog 4

I recently took a "soundwalk" of Harlem and noticed many key sounds while i was walking. Through the streets you tend to hear different noises of cars going by but i distinctly herd many of the street vendors and many of the stores had microphones that let them announce what was on sale or what they were selling. Many times i would walk by the stores and be dragged into the stores due to the excessive haggeling done by the store owners. There are many other sounds around the stores and people as well. If you walk down the street and stop and look to your right on 106th and 2nd you should see a pizza place, across the street there should be a supermarket, if you listen clearly you can hear the sound of the door opening, and then listen clearer and you will hear the noise of the cash registers. This is usually a landmark to myself, due to the pizza place on said street. The people are loud to begin with andn they make life so intresting. Walk even further down and you can hear the cars whizzing by your head as they speed down the street. You also notice the people on the street talking on their cell phones, boppin to current music, or even singing to their ipods. The sounds of Harlem are truly a magnificent feature and should be noted. While on this i did notice that Harlem is a diverse area full of wonderful areas to sit and take a breather while taking in all aspects of a certain race or certain races.